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PUBLIC LAW 99a-AUG. 6, 1966

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in practice. Those costs of constructing the project which are properly allocable to flood control and to the preservation and propagation of fish and wildlife as provided in existing law, and the like costs of operating and maintaining the same shall be nonreturnable and nonreimbursable under the reclamations laws. SEC. 3. The Secretary is authorized, in connection with the Crooked Eiver project, to construct minimum basic public recreational facilities and to arrange for the operation and maintenance of the same by an appropriate State or local agency or organization. The cost of such facilities shall be nonreturnable and nonreimbursable under the Federal reclamation laws. SEC. 4. I n order to promote the preservation and propagation of fish and wildlife in accordance with section 2 of the Act of August 14, 1946 (60 Stat. 1080, 16 U.S.C. sec. 661a), an appropriate screen and fish ladder shall be provided at the diversion canal headworks of the Crooked River project below Prineville Reservoir and a minimum release of ten cubic feet per second shall be maintained from said reservoir for the benefit of downstream fishlife during those months when there is no other discharge therefrom, but this release may be reduced for brief temporary periods by the Secretary whenever he may find that release of the full ten cubic feet per second is harmful to the primary purpose of the project. SEC. 5. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated $6,339,000 for construction of the new works of the Crooked River project, plus such amounts, if any, as may be required by reason of changes in the cost of construction work of the types involved therein as shown by engineering indices and, in addition thereto, such sums as may be required to operate and maintain said project. Approved August 6, 1956.

Public Law 993

Recreational facilities.

Screen and jfish ladder. 16 USC 662.

^propriation.

CHAPTER 981

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Little Wood River reclamation project, Idaho.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the principal purposes of improving the irrigation water supply of approximately ten thousand acres of land in Blaine County, Idaho, and assisting in the control of floods, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to undertake an enlargement of the Little Wood River Reservoir and to operate and maintain the same in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto). Any contract entered into under section 9, subsection (d), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (63 Stat. 1187, 1193; 43 U.S.C. 485h) for payment of those portions of the costs of constructing, operating, and maintaining the Little Wood River project which are properly allocable to irrigation and which are assigned to be paid by the contracting organization shall provide for the repayment of the construction cost over a period of not more than forty years or as near thereto as is consistent with the adoption and operation of a variable payment formula which, being based on full repayment within the period stated under average conditions, permits variance in the required annual payments in the light of economic factors pertinent to the ability of the organization to pay. SEC. 2. The Secretary is authorized to construct minimum basic public recreational facilities in connection with the Little Wood River

August 6, 19£:6 [S. 3 2 2 7 ]

Little Wood River project.

43 USC 391.

Recreational facilities.

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